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APPROBATIONES DOCTORVM.
EGo infra scriptus natione Anglus, & in sacra Theologiae Facultate Parisiensi Magister, fidem facio me librum per∣legisse Anglicano idiomate scriptum; cui titulus, Two treatises, in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other the nature of mans soule is looked into, in way of discouerie of the immortali∣tie of reasonable soules, Authore nobilissimo, & vndequaque eruditis∣simo viro Kenelmo Digbaeo Anglo. In quo nihil deprehendiaut fidei, aut pietati Catholicae, & Romanae Ecclesiae dissonum vel indignum. Quod etiam spondeo, priusquam typis exoluetur, candi••iori ac dupli∣cato calculo testatum fore. Intereà verò ne tantum sub modio lumen vel parumper delitescat, hoc ipsum proprio firmaui chirographo. Datum Parisiis Kalendis Martijab Incarnationis anno 1644.
H. HOLDEN.
BY leaue & order from our sacred Facultie, wee vnder written Doctors of Deuinitie of the Vniuersitie of Paris haue read ouer this booke, entitled, Two treatises, in the one of which the nature of bodies, in the other the nature of mans soule is looked into, in way of discouerie of the immortalitie of reasonable soules. Written by Sir Kenelme Digby, & containing an hundred & sixteene shites, printed in folio by Gilles Blaizor 1644. Which, as well for its chiefe subiects sake, that neuer ought to be slightly handled, as also for its new & exotticke assertions in matters both of soule & bodie, wee haue the more diligently perused. And whether it hath hitte or missed of the truth, we must needs eesteme & highly extolle the au∣thours manly designe to ayme at euidence. Especially in this schepticke age, wherein so few professe, or thinke it possible to know with certitude. Yea wherein euen many of those, who to the vulgar seeme Maisters of learning, acknowledge all philosophies decisions only problematicall; and thence labouring to make their voluminous relations of each others phansies & opinious passe for science, haue quite banished her their schooles. But here we find a large & lofty soule, who not satisfyed with vnexamined words & ambiguous termes, longing to know dyues deepely into the bowells of all corporeall & compounded things: and then deuinely speculats the nature of immateriall & subsistent formes. Nor this by wrangling in aerie names with chimericall imaginations & fained suppositions of vnknowne qualities, but strongly stryuing to disclosehereall & connaturall truth of each thing in it self, and of one